Fwd: A qustion about srcML - Moose-dev

14 May 2008

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  From: "Jonathan I. Maletic, Ph.D."
&lt;jmaletic(a)cs.kent.edu&gt;
 Date: May 13, 2008 7:41:23 PM CEDT
 To: Stéphane Ducasse &lt;stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr&gt;fr>, Michael Collard
&lt;collard(a)cs.kent.edu 
   Subject: Re: A qustion about srcML

 Thanks. I was thinking that I could bridge it to our tools :)
 May be this question will help me to understand:
    when you have an AST, are the symbols resolved ? I guess not, I  
 imagine that srcML gives you the parsed text as input.
    which is already something in C++ :) 
 Stef,

 We have a separate tool to do name resolution, symbol table etc.    
 Name resolution is particularly difficult and this tool is not as  
 robust as the translator.   We've not been handing the name  
 resolution stuff out until will do some more testing.   As you said C 
 ++ is hell.   We plan to get these other tools cleaned up over the  
 summer.

 So just running the translator you get un-resolved names.

 Jonathan

  Stef,

 We markup up down to the identifier level.  But expressions are  
 not marked completely.  That is identifiers in expressions are  
 marked but the entire AST for the expression is not done.  So all  
 parameter lists are marked etc.

 Otherwise, everything else is marked up including preprocessor  
 statements, templates, and comments.  Nothing is removed from the  
 original code code.  You can get the exact original code back  
 including whitespace.

 Does this help?

 It's fast and robust.  A number of folks are using it including  
 some people in industry.  So it actually works as opposed to just  
 a prototype. 
 I like that.
 C++ is so much a hell. A friend of mine tried CDT and the code is  
 really strange (you have to walk several structure to go from a
 method to its class).

 Stef 